The 33-year-old star of Drive and The Notebook appeared genuinely humbled to be given such a prominent launching pad for his film Lost River.
Despite the prominent launch, the Graduate 10K+ program faces an uncertain future.
Another, slightly less prominent launch, was the introduction of Facebook's Smart Lists.
His marriage to the niece of a prominent politician launched his political career.
Edith Wharton, a natural born storyteller is one of the most prominent launching her writing career in 1891 bringing us several American classics like The Age of Innocence.
The comments were made during a remarkable assault on the ideology of violent Islamist extremists by Pakistani-born Sheikh Tahir ul-Qadri, a prominent theologian who launched a seminal fatwa in London yesterday condemning terrorism in all its forms.
Tasked with raising the funds to pay the king's ransom, the Estates-General seized the opportunity to propose reforms, but those efforts were rebuffed by the dauphin, Charles (later Charles V). Étienne Marcel, a prominent Paris merchant, launched an ill-fated bid to compel Charles to submit to the Estates-General.
Oleg Kozyrev, a prominent opposition blogger, launched a Facebook group called "Zuckerberg, don't be friends with a dictator!", urging the American to meet "not with officials who jail Russian bloggers and create laws on internet censorship, but with bloggers, who suffer from these laws".
A year ago AQR, a prominent hedge fund in Greenwich, Connecticut, launched its first mutual fund; six more have since followed, the latest on January 5th.
Trotsky took a prominent part in the launching of the Comintern in 1919 and wrote its initial manifesto.
